11.   The Israeli Army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Ehud Barak, has said it would be difficult to protect Jews in the West Bank after an Israeli pullback.

12.   The March withdrawal did not take place after the Palestinians rejected a proposed Israeli pullback from less than three percent of the West Bank as too small.

13.   The United States is seeking a gradual Israeli pullback from the West Bank, allowing an increasing Palestinian control of the area.

14.   With the dramatic Israeli pullback from south Lebanon, hope for Palestinian refugees to return to their ancestral homeland has been rekindled.

15.   Peres said Monday that bringing in the observers was a first step toward an Israeli pullback.

16.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Monday that he hoped an upcoming Palestinian-Israeli summit meeting in Washington would expedite a further Israeli military pullback from the West Bank.

17.   Palestinian negotiators in U.S.-backed talks with Israel are pushing for a deep Israeli pullback on the West Bank and a freeze on construction of settlements there.

18.   Palestinian officials have suggested that a partial Israeli pullback would be acceptable only if Israel agreed to a firm timetable for its withdrawal from other cities.

19.   Palestinian officials said they would not engage in cease-fire talks with Israel until the Israeli pullback was complete.

20.   Palestinians have demanded a far greater withdrawal even though the Israeli-PLO accord does not define the scope of the first two Israeli pullbacks.